{"title":"A clinical trial of the effect of aromatherapy on motivational behaviour in a dementia care setting using a single subject design.","authors":"S MacMahon, S Kermode","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>An n = 1 clinical trial of the effectiveness of aromatherapy on motivational behaviour in a dementia care setting was undertaken using an AB design. Baseline data were recorded for two months, followed by two months of treatment data. Findings showed a statistically significant improvement in motivational behaviour associated with the use of aromatherapy.</p>","PeriodicalId":80194,"journal":{"name":"The Australian journal of holistic nursing","volume":"5 2","pages":"47-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21294064","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"From acorn to oak tree: a neoplatonic perspective of reflection and caring.","authors":"D Freshwater","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This paper provides a meta-analysis of reflection and caring. Placed within a philosophical framework, the nurse's call to care is explored. Drawing upon Rosemarie Parse's theory of human becoming (1981) and Plato's myth of Er (Hillman, 1996), the author discusses the idea of caring as an 'innate image'. This image is expanded throughout the paper as the author uses the analogy of the acorn as containing the becoming oak tree.</p>","PeriodicalId":80194,"journal":{"name":"The Australian journal of holistic nursing","volume":"5 2","pages":"14-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21294058","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Holism in nursing.","authors":"A Morgan","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article explores the concept of holism in nursing in terms of what it is and what it has to offer.</p>","PeriodicalId":80194,"journal":{"name":"The Australian journal of holistic nursing","volume":"5 2","pages":"32-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21294061","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Patchwork and quilting as holistic health practice.","authors":"K Roberts","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Patchwork and quilting can be part of holistic care to clients and their loved ones. Nurses can encourage clients to use these skills to promote health and divert their attention from their illness. They can also encourage clients' loved ones to make commemorative quilts. Such strategies will help to enhance the emotional and spiritual side of nursing.</p>","PeriodicalId":80194,"journal":{"name":"The Australian journal of holistic nursing","volume":"5 2","pages":"4-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21294056","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A grounded theory approach towards understanding the self perceived effects of meditation on people being treated for cancer.","authors":"C Brennan, J Stevens","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The activities undertaken by people suffering cancer and receiving oncology treatment are known to cause high levels of anxiety. In an oncology clinic in rural Australia, nurses and volunteers promoted the use of meditation to reduce the stress caused by the terminally associated illness and its treatments. The use and self-perceived effects of meditation by cancer sufferers and their partners was explored using a grounded theory approach. Data were gathered and analysed from a series of semi-structured interviews and the findings used to generate theory regarding the use of meditation within the oncology domain. A number of theories were generated by this data and they are discussed in relation to current nursing practice and future research.</p>","PeriodicalId":80194,"journal":{"name":"The Australian journal of holistic nursing","volume":"5 2","pages":"20-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21294059","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Considerations and contemplation on reflective practice.","authors":"M Martin","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In thinking through practice reflections Margi uses images and text to contemplate the form of conversation when spiritual/ elemental experience enables a person or family to reconnect the layers of their everyday world with the heart or centre of their being.</p>","PeriodicalId":80194,"journal":{"name":"The Australian journal of holistic nursing","volume":"5 2","pages":"27-31"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21294060","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Aromatherapy in practice: creative nursing care--Daw House Hospice.","authors":"R Osborne","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":80194,"journal":{"name":"The Australian journal of holistic nursing","volume":"5 2","pages":"50"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21294065","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An ecumenical approach to healthcare.","authors":"K James","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":80194,"journal":{"name":"The Australian journal of holistic nursing","volume":"5 1","pages":"46"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21294054","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Back from the bush.","authors":"S Kildea, S Kruske","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":80194,"journal":{"name":"The Australian journal of holistic nursing","volume":"5 1","pages":"47-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21294055","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On humanity in nursing.","authors":"B Taylor","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":80194,"journal":{"name":"The Australian journal of holistic nursing","volume":"5 1","pages":"3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21295489","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}